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• 2022 – Co-Organizer (in partnership with LCD EVENTS) for the 25th Dance- hall Queen Anniversary Celebration, Film Screening and after party at Tracks & Records, October 11. • 2022 – Organiser (in partnership with LCD EVENTS) for the 25th Dancehall Queen Anniversary Symposium, October 10. • 2022 – Chief Adjudicator – JCDC FI WI Short Film Competition, September, 2022 • 2022 – Delivered Judge’s Report for FIWI Short Film Competition Awards Ceremony September 29. AGILITY The ICS solidified international funding from agencies to support its progammes as shown below: • A grant of USD25, 000 from the Bard Prison Initiative (BPI) Consortium to train eight prisoners at the Tower Street Correctional Facility and two Correctional Officers in a certificate programme in Entertainment Business • Partnering with the Council for World Mission Ltd in their Legacies Artwork Commission Project for which JA$2,900,000.00 was awarded for the comple- tion of a project with colleagues from the Philip Sherlock Centre for Creative Arts and the Edna Manley College of the Visual and Performing Arts. The monument design was selected and a space is to be approved for its erection. • A grant proposal of EUR 3,000,000 to support the Cultural and Creative Indus- tries in the Caribbean with partnership from UNESCO and CARICOM. This was initiated by Dr. Sonjah Stanley Niaah of the ICS with support from a UWI team, including Dr Deborah Hickling Gordon from the ICS and Dr Julie-Ann Grant of the Mona Office of Research. The project (The Creative Caribbean: An Ecosystem of ‘Play’ For Growth and Development), commenced on January 1, 2021, with an expected duration of 40 months and was recognized by The UWI as the research project attracting the most research funds in the Academic Year 2022/2023.
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